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... flowers , And humbler things . I'm uniform always- And that you'll think strange ; For one so capricious , An instant will change . RIDDLE XIX . THOUGH made by art , ' tis nature gives me voice ; I answer all , yet never speak , by ...
... flowers , And humbler things . I'm uniform always- And that you'll think strange ; For one so capricious , An instant will change . RIDDLE XIX . THOUGH made by art , ' tis nature gives me voice ; I answer all , yet never speak , by ...
Page 18
... flowers , And shedding the richest perfume . And yet , pretty maids , I declare , That mine is as lovely a hue ; No roses with me shall compare , Whene'er you display me to view . The rose is a short blooming flower ; Its beauty may die ...
... flowers , And shedding the richest perfume . And yet , pretty maids , I declare , That mine is as lovely a hue ; No roses with me shall compare , Whene'er you display me to view . The rose is a short blooming flower ; Its beauty may die ...
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... flowers , Trembling on the verdant lawn : I'm seen in Flora's rosy bowers , And am exhaled as soon as born . RIDDLE LXXVI . WE ' re sometimes three , or only two , or one , And in such cases are esteemed by none ; But when we're many ...
... flowers , Trembling on the verdant lawn : I'm seen in Flora's rosy bowers , And am exhaled as soon as born . RIDDLE LXXVI . WE ' re sometimes three , or only two , or one , And in such cases are esteemed by none ; But when we're many ...
Page 88
... fancied happiness . Now a flower , my senses failing , Robb'd of every true delight , Yet a sweet perfume exhaling , And array'd in spotless white . In your garden should you find me , Near some 88 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
... fancied happiness . Now a flower , my senses failing , Robb'd of every true delight , Yet a sweet perfume exhaling , And array'd in spotless white . In your garden should you find me , Near some 88 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
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... hedge that is near . My whole is a fruit , that is seen To flourish in gardens , near bowers ; ' Tis red , it is yellow , or green ; And you like it much better than flowers . CHARADE II . WITH my first I sometimes warm myself CHARADES .
... hedge that is near . My whole is a fruit , that is seen To flourish in gardens , near bowers ; ' Tis red , it is yellow , or green ; And you like it much better than flowers . CHARADE II . WITH my first I sometimes warm myself CHARADES .
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12 engravings 16 ditto 24 engravings Abbé amusement ancient appear attend Author Battle of Waterloo beauty birth blooming boast bound in cloth breast bright Burmese War CHARADE Charlemagne charms CHRO cloth and leather coloured dark delight despised Dorset Street e'er earth England fame fire Fleet Street flowers form'd FRENCH LANGUAGE Game give GLET half bound head heart HOFLAND honour Illustrated Instructive ISAAC TAYLOR kings KINGS of ENGLAND ladies land learned Lessons maps moral nature ne'er never night numerous o'er pain Picts plain plates pleasure Price QUADRUPEDS RACTERS reign rich RIDDLE Saxons Second Edition second s a seen SEUM shew sometimes square 16mo Stories strange syllables Tale thing Third Edition thor tion toil TOMMY TRIP'S Tree VOLUME whole wond'rous wood cuts word ye fair young youth
Popular passages
Page 97 - THE VOWELS We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
Page 52 - I'm now a sail, and now a mast. I here am red, and there am green, A beggar there, and here a queen. I sometimes live in a house of hair, And oft in hand of lady fair. I please the young, I grace the old, And am at once both hot and cold Say what I am then, if you can, And find the rhyme, and you're the man.